"The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body."
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"It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.“
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"Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be."
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"To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."
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"When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield."
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"Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune."
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"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example."
-Timothy McVeigh
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"If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple."
-Dallas Willard
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"If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people."
-Richard Stengel
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"Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth you have to cut yourself to theirs."
-Jeanine Basinger
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"I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies."
-Nicole Anderson
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"I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats."
-Joe Davis
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